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S. W. GROSH.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

SILAS W. GROSH, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,007, dated October 25, 1892.

Application filed March 5, 1892. Serial No. 423,826- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be. it known that I, SILAS W. GROSH, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Doors, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to doors for graincars. It is designed to provide means for retainlng the door in connection with the car when not in use. It does not obstruct the door-opening in a manner to subject itself to danger of breakage when the car is used for other material than grain. It holds the door firmly when said door is swung up out of the way, and it is embodied in the details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and'forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective representation of the inside of the door, showing its connection with a car. Fig. 2 is a section on line Y in Fig. I, showing the door raised and swung inward in position to be connected with the top of the car. Fig. 3 is a section on line X in Fig. 1, showing a rail and a guide in detail. Fig. 4 is a perspective representation of a guide.

A part of a side of a car is shown at 1. The door 2 has cleats 7, which are provided with wedges or wedge-shaped heads 8. The keepers 9 act as guides for the door when it is closing and they are shaped to coact with the wedges of the cleats for the purpose of holding the closed door in close contact with the casings of the door. The rails 3 are of sheet metal. They are secured to the inner faces of the inside vertical door-casings, and they have the outwardly-bent L portions 4 cut away or recessed at their upper ends, as shown at 5. The guides 6 are in the nature of brackets. They are securely attached to the outer surface of the upper corners of the doors, and they have each a hooked slidebearing 10 above the upper end of the door and embracing a ledge 4. of a guide-rail. The rails extend from the top of the car-door opening to about the vertical center of such opening and they are provided at their lower ends with stops 11, which prevent the guides from sliding below and out of connection with the rails. The rails are secured to the side doorcasings. The door guides are slipped onto the lower ends of the rails, and the stops 11 are secured in place. Then when it is desired to get the door entirely out of the way it is moved upward in a vertical position until the hooks of the guides are in the recesses of the rails, when it (the door) may be swung into a horizontal position, as seen in Fig. 2, and secured at its swinging end to the top of the car, the lower edge being sustained in the recess of the rail. The door bears against the inside of the casing and the guides bear against the outside edges of the rail, so that the door cannot be detached from the car without considerable difiiculty, and consequently will always be ready for use when needed. The guides are flush with the inside surface of the door-casing, and the angle-irons of which they are composed are very stiff. Consequently the car may be used for carrying other freight without danger of incapacitating the grain-door. The door bears against the inside surface of the casing when elevated, as shown in Fig. 2, and firmlyholds the slidebearings in the recesses of the guides.

I claim- 1. Acardoor adapted to bear against the inner surface of the door-casings, outwardlyprojecting guiderails parallel with the sidecasings, flush with the inner surface thereof, and having the outer portions of their upper ends cut away or recessed, and guides on the upper corners of the door, having hooked slides above the door embracing the outer edgils of the rails, all in combination, as set fort 2. A oar-door adapted to bear against the SILAS W. GROSH.

Attest:

W. M. LEWIS, L. P. GRAHAM. 

